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The Relative Age Effect and Under-21 Irish Association Football: A Natural Experiment and Policy Recommendations
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2015)A relative age effect refers to the presence of a bias towards relatively older children assembled collectively within a selection year. We consider this in association football (soccer) for Republic of Ireland under ... -
A Reduced-form Equation for the Unemployment Rate Estimated from a Panel of Nineteen OECD Countries
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2015)Using a dynamic fixed-effects model for a panel of nineteen OECD countries and annual aggregate data, 1970-2008, we estimate a reduced-form equation for the observed unemployment rate. We find that wage-push factors, such ... -
Blowing the Bubble: The Global Funding of the Irish Credit Boom
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2015)European global banks played a significant role in the international transmission of liquidity during the period prior to the global financial crisis. This paper examines how European global banks channelled finance, raised ... -
Are Classroom Internet Use and Academic Performance Higher after Government Broadband Subsidies to Primary Schools?
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A Formal Investigation of Inequalities in Health Behaviours After Age 50 on the Island of Ireland
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Outsourcing Foreign Services and the Internet: Evidence from Firm Level Data
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Spillover in Euro Area Sovereign Bond Markets
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Network social capital and labour market outcomes: Evidence for Ireland
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2014)Using data from the International Social Survey Programme 2008 this paper tests empirically the effects of network social capital on Irish employment outcomes, while attempting to account for possible endogeneity. We allow ... -
Is fuel poverty in Ireland a distinct type of deprivation?
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2014)In this paper, we draw on the Central Statistics Office SILC data for Ireland to ask whether fuel poverty is a distinctive type of deprivation that warrants a fundamentally different policy response than poverty in general. ... -
Do credit constraints affect SME investment and employment?
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2014)This paper explores the potential presence of credit constraints confronting Irish SMEs and investigates the impact of these constraints on firms’ employment and investment. Using new survey data collected by the Department ... -
Winners and losers on the roller-coaster: Ireland, 2003-2011
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2014)This paper applies the methodology of Ravallion and Chen in calculating growth incidence curves for Ireland over the 2003-2011 period, using measures of equivalised disposable income from the Survey of Income and Living ... -
Middle class squeeze? Social class and perceived financial hardship in Ireland, 2002-2012
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2014)Ireland has been particularly hit by the economic downturn of 2008. For many families in Ireland the economic downturn put strong pressures on their household budgets. This study examines how the recession has changed class ... -
The risks of intuition: Size, costs and economies of scale in local government
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2014)Extensive international research surrounds the optimal size of local government and associated issues of amalgamations and economies of scale in local government. Given recent structural reforms of Irish local government, ... -
Determinants of pension coverage and retirement income replacement rates – Evidence from TILDA
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2014)In Ireland, the absence of statutory earnings-related pensions in the private sector leads to large variations in pension coverage and adequacy. This paper uses recent data from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) ... -
Income and wealth in The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2014)Between 2009 and 2011, data were collected under the first wave of The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA). Over 8,500 people aged 50 and over and living in Ireland were interviewed about a wide range of topics ... -
The Socio-economic gradient of obesity in Ireland – Corrigendum
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2014)In a paper published in this journal in 2013 concentration indices for obesity were presented for male and female obesity. Decompositions of the indices were also presented. There was an error in the calculations which led ... -
Informational efficiency in distressed markets: The case of European corporate bonds
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2014)This paper investigates the effect of the 2008 financial crisis on informational efficiency by carrying out a long-memory analysis of European corporate bond markets. We compute the Hurst exponent for fifteen sectorial ... -
Maternal country of birth differences in breastfeeding at hospital discharge in Ireland
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2014)In 2010, 46 per cent of Irish-born mothers were breastfeeding at hospital discharge, in comparison with 84 per cent of non-Irish-born mothers. Using data from the Irish National Perinatal Reporting System, we find that ... -
Lags in transmission of inflation
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1977)In the July 1976 issue of The Economic and Social Review, P. T. Geary presented some preliminary results on the analysis of lags in the transmission of inflation. Essentially his paper consisted of the following points. ... -
Note on heteroscedasticity in cross-section regressions estimated from Irish county data
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1977)It is well knqwn that, even when they are expressed in log or per capita form, many statistical series on Irish counties (by which is meant here the twenty-six counties of the Republic) are characterised by a value for ...